One of the articles published the name and two pornographic videos of one of the women Ramaphosa allegedly had an affair with. He is not in the video.

The woman brought a successful court application to have the videos removed from the Weekly Xposé website. But Kunene said outside the court that he had "over a hundred videos and photos".

He accused The Times and the Sunday Times of being "PR for Cyril".

"When he takes over this country, that is exactly the type of leader that we are going to have that is going to suppress, who is going to lock journalists up, who is going to intimidate and threaten owners and journalists," he said.

Sunday Independent editor Steve Motale declined to say what had happened to the further exposes he promised.

"What is the interest? My answer shortly to you is, it is none of your business."

Motale last month wrote that the leaked e-mails contained photos, pornographic videos and bank deposit slips.

Ramaphosa's acting spokesman, Tyrone Seale, said the deputy president had laid charges with the police because he believed his e-mails had been unlawfully accessed.